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19 hours ago · Mongolia. Mongolia [b] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country ...
- Religion in Mongolia
Buddhism in Mongolia began with the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)...
- Mongolian Script
The traditional Mongolian script, also known as the Hudum...
- Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar (/ ˌ uː l ɑː n ˈ b ɑː t ər /; Mongolian:...
- Language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language...
- Religion in Mongolia
19 hours ago · Leipzig (/ ˈ l aɪ p s ɪ ɡ,-s ɪ x / LYPE-sig, -sikh, German: [ˈlaɪptsɪç] ⓘ; Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023.
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The Deutsche Bundesbahn started a series of trials in 1985 using the InterCityExperimental (also called ICE-V) test train. The IC Experimental was used as a showcase train and for high-speed trials, setting a new world speed record at 406.9 km/h (253 mph) on 1 May 1988.The train was retired in 1996 and replaced with a new trial unit, called the ICE...
ICE livery
A notable characteristic of the ICE trains is their colour design, which has been registered by the DB as an aesthetic model and hence is protected as intellectual property. The trains are painted in Pale Grey (RAL 7035) with a Traffic Red (RAL 3020) stripe on the lower part of the vehicle. The continuous black band of windows and their oval door windows differentiate the ICEs from any other DBtrain. The ICE 1 and ICE 2 units originally had an Orient Red (RAL 3031) stripe, accompanied by a Pa...
Trainset numbers
While every car in an ICE train has its own unique registration number, the trains usually remain coupled as fixed trainsets for several years. For easier reference, each has been assigned a trainset numberthat is printed over each bogie of every car. These numbers usually correspond with the registration numbers of the powerheads or cab cars.
Interior equipment
The ICE trains adhere to a high standard of technology: all cars are fully air-conditioned and nearly every seat features a headphone jack which enables the passenger to listen to several on-board music and voice programmes as well as several radio stations. Some seats in the 1st class section (in some trains also in 2nd class) are equipped with video displays showing movies and pre-recorded infotainment programmes. Each train is equipped with special cars that feature in-train repeaters for...
The ICE system is a polycentric network. Connections are offered in either 30-minute, hourly or bi-hourly intervals. Furthermore, additional services run during peak times, and some services call at lesser stations during off-peak times. Unlike the French TGV or the Japanese Shinkansensystems, the vehicles, tracks and operations were not designed a...
There have been several accidents involving ICE trains. The Eschede disaster was the only accident with fatalities inside the train, but other accidents have resulted in major damage to the trainsets involved.
Germany
ICE trains are the highest category (Class A) trains in the fare system of the Deutsche Bahn. Their fares are not calculated on a fixed per-kilometre table as with other trains, but instead have fixed prices for station-to-station connections, depending on a multitude of factors including the railway line category and the general demand on the line. Even on lines where the ICE is not faster than an ordinary IC or ECtrain (for example Hamburg to Dortmund), an additional surcharge will be levie...
Austria
On the intra-Austrian lines (Vienna-Innsbruck-Bregenz, Vienna-Salzburg(-Munich), Vienna-Passau(-Hamburg) and Innsbruck-Kufstein(-Berlin)) no additional fees are charged.
Switzerland
Likewise, the trains running to and from Zurich, Interlaken and Chur, as well as those on the intra-Swiss ICE trains (see above) can be used without any surcharge.
Various ICE train scale models in several scales have been produced by Märklin, Fleischmann[non-primary source needed], Roco[non-primary source needed], Trix, Mehano, PIKO.[non-primary source needed] and Lima[non-primary source needed].
London
In January 2010, the European railway network was opened to a liberalisation intended to allow greater competition. Both Air France-KLM and Deutsche Bahn have indicated their desire to take advantage of the new laws to run new services via the Channel Tunnel and the High Speed 1route that terminates at London St Pancras International. A test run of an ICE train through the Channel Tunnel took place on 19 October 2010. Passenger-carrying ICE trains, however, will have to meet safety requiremen...
Munich-Zurich
A new ICE service from Munich to Zurich via Lindau (the Allgäu Railway of Bavaria) is planned to start after 2020 when the electrification and modernization works in the 150 km section between Geltendorf and Lindau will be completed. The journey times will be then cut by 45 min to less than 3 hours and 30 minutes and the line between Munich and Zurich is expected to be served by up to eight trains per day running at speeds up to 160 km/h.As of July 2020, the works are scheduled to be effectfu...
From its inception in July 1991 to 2006, ICE has transported roughly 550 million passengers, including 67 million in 2005.The cumulative sum of passengers is roughly 1.25 billion in 2015.
On 5 October 2006, the Deutsche Post AG released a series of stamps, among them a stamp picturing an ICE 3, at 55+25 euro cents.[citation needed] In 2006, Lego modelled one of its train sets after the ICE. A Railworks add on is available for Train Simulator 2018 accurately reflecting the original 1991 version of the ICE on German tracks (Siegen to ...
- 1985–present
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- Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and France. Formerly Denmark.
- 1,435mm Standard gauge
19 hours ago · Canarian time is Western European Time (WET), or GMT. In summer, one hour ahead of GMT. Canarian time is one hour behind mainland Spain, and the same time as the UK, Ireland and mainland Portugal all year round. Tourism statistics. The number of tourists who visited the Canary Islands was 2018 16,150,054. In 2019, there were 15,589,290 arrivals.
